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Active X-ray Optics For The Next High Resolution X-ray Observatory

Active X-ray Optics For The Next High Resolution X-ray Observatory. Martin Elvis Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. 1/100,000. 1982 HEAO-1. good enough for my thesis. 43 Years of X-ray Astronomy: 1 billion times more sensitive. 2002 Chandra.

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Active X-ray Optics For The Next High Resolution X-ray Observatory

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  1. Active X-ray Optics For The Next High Resolution X-ray Observatory Martin Elvis Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

  2. 1/100,000 1982 HEAO-1 good enough for my thesis 43 Years of X-ray Astronomy:1 billion times more sensitive 2002 Chandra 1/10,000 1962 Sco X-1 Good for 1 (one) Nobel Prize Detector Area, Exposure time angular resolution 2022 Gen-X

  3. The Chandra X-ray Observatory Launched by NASA 7 yearsago: 23 July 1999 Has revolutionized X-ray astronomy …and all of astronomy

  4. ROSAT: ~5” Chandra: ~0.5” [2.4 mrad] The Chandra Revolution:Quantitative : 70 to 1400 Sources ROSAT: ~10” The Star Formation Region in Orion

  5. The Chandra Revolution: qualitatively new structures Chandra: ~0.5” The Supernova Remnant Cassiopeia A ROSAT: ~5”

  6. Chandra’s High Resolution: A Terrestrial Analog Earth observing satellite equivalents of … SPACE IMAGING Best X-ray image of whole sky (ROSAT) Best X-ray images before Chandra (ROSAT) Chandra images Any sign of life? What’s this odd thing? I get it!

  7. Chandra’s 1/2” Does not Tell All Chandra: ~0.5” Hubble: ~0.1” ROSAT: ~5” The Antennae Colliding Galaxies System

  8. Chandra only gives this Detail on the nearest of each Class of Celestial Object Chandra: ~0.5” ROSAT: ~5” The Giant Galaxy M87 in the Virgo Cluster

  9. Chandra took X-ray Astronomy from a ‘Galileo’ era to a ‘Palomar’ era Gen-X Hubble 0.1” Galileo 1610 1” Optical Astronomy X-ray Astronomy Angular resolution 10” Chandra 100” Dawn of History 1600 1700 1800 1900 2000 Year X-ray Astronomy needs to move into its ‘Hubble’ era

  10. A High Resolution X-ray Successor to Chandra is Obviously Needed • Chandra mirrors are heavy • 1.5 cm thick glass cylinders • No current plans for a Chandra-class - sub-arcsec - mission - world-wide • No space agency developing high resolution X-ray mirrors • Planned missions revert to pre-Chandra image quality: • Constellation-X (NASA) HEW=15”, 75mrad (5” goal); concentrates on area and spectral resolution • XEUS (ESA) HEW = 5”,25 mrad (2” goal)

  11. 100 10 HEW (arcsec) Chandra 1 1.0 0.0 0.5 Mass/unit area (kg cm-2) A High Resolution Successor to Chandra:Desiderata • Aeff > 1 m2 (10x Chandra) • 10 - 100 m2 preferred • Can’t use integral shells  segments • HEW < 0.25” (<0.5 Chandra) • HEW ~< 0.1” preferred • Mirror mass < 1000 kg • Launcher capability, cost Requires <1/10 M/Aeff of Chandra i.e. New Technology Citterio et al.199x [Brera]

  12. Science Goals for a Next Generation High Resolution X-ray ObservatorySensitivity:X-rays are a channel to the epoch of the first stars and black holes • Strong X-ray emission expected from early universe (z~10) objects • Collapse of first overdensities • Growth of first black holes • must grow at maximum [Eddington] rate to make quasars by z=6 • Affect re-ionization? Madau et al. 2004 ApJ 604, 484 • Gamma-ray Bursts probe to z=10? • Probes of z=10? • Optical, UV not available HI absorption • FIR, mm limited by lack of molecules at high z • Radio has HI 21 cm line  <140 MHz • Near-IR and X-ray have atomic features: 1-10mm, 0.1-1.0 keV WMAP Cosmic Microwave Background fluctuations map

  13. Imaging: Merging Black Holes and AGNs Chandra image of NGC6240: two AGNs in a merger. Stefanie Komossa et al. • Merging black holes give insight into merger tree vs. redshift • Tests models of galaxy formation • But early quasars may be heavily dust enshrouded • X-rays can see through a factor 1020 optical obscuration • 10keV rest frame • Needs high angular resolution • 2 kpc at z=1 is 0.25” • (~0.1 galaxy dia.) • Higher z does not need higher angular resolution Schematic Black Hole Merger Tree Marta Volonteri, priv. Comm.

  14. Spectroscopy: Warm-Hot Intergalactic Medium • Chandra detected the Warm-Hot Intergalactic Medium - where most of the baryons reside in the local universe (z<1) • X-rays can measure heating and enrichment of IGM • Needs R=3000 • Resolve thermal widths of lines • R=400 with Chandra • Set by HEW of mirror • Need HEW <0.1” Chandra Spectrum of the low z WHIM toward MKN 421 Nicastro et al. 2005 Nature

  15. X-rays at z~10Age = 480 Myr (3.5%) • Faint: 1st BH fluxes: ~10-3 of Deepest Chandra surveys • Large area, Aeff ~ 100 m2 • High angular resolution • HEW ~ 0.1”, 0.5mrad • Reduce background • Discriminate from foreground z=3 galaxies • 0.1-10 keV band • spectra kT~10keV / (1+z) ~1 keV • Defines next generation high resolution large X-ray Observatory: Generation-X

  16. Generation-X Vision Mission Study • Gen-X selected as NASA Vision Mission study in 2003 • Large, high resolution X-ray Observatory to follow Chandra, XMM-Newton and Constellation-X • Nominal Launch date ~ 2020 • Mission concept studies • JPL ‘Team-X’ : formation flying • GSFC ‘IMDC’: single spacecraft • Mirror studies: SAO, GSFC • Detector studies: SAO, MIT • Presented to NASA committees Generation-X Vision Mission Study Report March 9, 2006 Prepared for National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Headquarters

  17. Webster Cash Colorado • Martin Weisskopf MSFC • Mel Ulmer Northwestern • Niel Brandt PSU • Robert Cameron Stanford • Steve Kahn • Rogier Windhorst ASU and collaborators Generation-X Vision Mission Study Team • Roger Brissenden (PI) SAO • Martin Elvis • Pepi Fabbiano • Paul Gorenstein • Paul Reid • Dan Schwartz • Harvey Tananbaum • Rob Petre GSFC • Richard Mushotzky • Nick White • Will Zhang • Mark Bautz MIT • Claude Canizares • Enectali Figueroa-Feliciano David Miller • Mark Schattenburg 75 People, 14 Institutions, 5 Industry Partners, 2 NASA Centers

  18. THERMAL RADIATOR THERMAL COLLECTOR INFLATABLE SUN SHIELD SOLAR ARRAY GRATING ASSEMBLY INFLATIABLE INSTRUMENT SHIELD 1.5M ANTENNA SOLAR ARRAY Gen-X Study Options: 1 Option 1: GSFC IMDC Six identical spacecraft, 8m dia mirrors 2/3 filling factor: 60o segments: 50 meter focal length • Thermal mirror control feasible • Optical bench tolerances OK 50 m

  19. Gen-X Study Options: 2 Option 2: JPL Team X Separate mirror, detector spacecraft. formation flying. 20m dia. Mirror; 125 meter focal length (same f-ratio as option 1) • Single instrument suite • Able to change instrument spacecraft • Main Challenge: maintaining s/c separation 125 m 20 m Diameter, Folded Mirror

  20. THERMAL RADIATOR THERMAL COLLECTOR INFLATABLE SUN SHIELD SOLAR ARRAY GRATING ASSEMBLY INFLATIABLE INSTRUMENT SHIELD 1.5M ANTENNA SOLAR ARRAY Gen-X Study: Feasibility Both options: • No show stoppers • Launch capability to Sun-Earth L2 OK • Power budget OK • Main Challenge: Mirror technology • Need 1/100 Chandra mass/area • Yet 10 x better angular resolution

  21. High Resolution X-ray Optics for Astronomy: Challenging Requirements • High angular resolution, large area  thin shells • Axial figure errors comparable to Chandra • Azimuthal figure errors substantially better  On-orbit adjustment of figure? Advantages • Reduced ground calibration • Reduced launch stability requirements • Can operate away from room temperature • Slow adjustments ~10-5 Hz high orbit C.f. 10 Hz on ground-based telescopes Challenges • Optical path clearance • Sensing misalignments • Calculating adjustments • Applying corrections • Stable actuators

  22. Suzaku Mirror segment X-ray Telescopes vs. Synchrotrons • Low rates: 10ct s-1 m-2 is bright •  Nested shells Giacconi & Rossi 1962 to build up collecting area • Thin substrates: few 100 mm • No blockage of optical path allowed • Parabola - Hyperbola mirror pairs • Energy range: • E > 0.1 keVGalaxy absorption • E < 10 keVArea, focal length limits • Incoherent • 1” [5mrad] is good • Diffraction limit 25 mas on Chandra • C.f. 500 mas achieved • 0.1” [0.5mrad] goal • Jitter removed via star camera • Photon counting - correct each photon position • Space mirrors are expensive

  23. 16-element PBM Signorato et al.,2004, SPIE Piezoelectric Bi-morph (PBM) Active X-ray Optics • Working at Synchrotrons • news to astronomers • 10 year program by Signorato et al. • Operational • 16-, 32- element • ~1 m long optics • 2 cm sized actuators • Kirkpatrick-Baez configuration

  24. Piezoelectric Bi-morph Mirrors (PBM): Good Properties for Astronomy II • Piezos parallel to mirror surface • Reduce amplitude of errors by factor 15 • From 150 nm to 10 nm • Factor 100 more improvement possible • C.f. mechanical actuators: No - • Optical path blockage • lubricants • hysterisis • backlash

  25. Suzaku Mirror segment Piezoelectric Bi-morph Mirrors (PBM): Good Properties for Astronomy I • Thin: no optical path blockage • Natural match to thin reflectors • 0.2 mm • Low power, weight • Existing synchrotron K-B mirrors comparable size to telescope segments • Pairs of oppositely directed piezos remove T dependence • Stable over days, months • No anticlastic effect (‘saddling’)

  26. Needed for flight proposal Synchrotron level Our starting level Wikipedia Active X-ray Optics for Astronomy and PBM Synchrotron PBM work: • Raises Gen-X TRL substantially • Makes ‘pathfinder’ mission candidate for Decadal review (2007-2009)

  27. Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Active Optics: CfA/Argonne Partnership • Argonne National Labs: • Center for Nanoscale Materials Director: Eric Isaacs • piezo materials • Rad. Hard • 2-D deflections • power • Harvard-Smithsonian CfA: • Center for X-ray Technology Director: Steve Murray • Forming substrates via replication • PBM metrology, ray tracing • Calibration: optics, computing

  28. Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics PBM Development needed for X-ray Astronomy • Thin replica substrates - bonding PBM • 2-D Wolter geometry • axial + azimuthal curvature • Radiation hard piezo materials • Cold operation piezos • getting the wires out • Mass production: 100 m2 Aeff 104 m2 polished area • Cost • Speed - ~3 year production • ~2x105 (2 cm actuators)/m2 Aeff : • Calibration • Calculation problem - • closed loop essential in orbit

  29. Active X-ray Optics: figure improvement • Need factor ~100 correction: • ~400 nm errors to ~4 nm • Finite element analysis shows feasibility of control - in principle! • Begin with Con-X optic goal, • 2 cm axial actuators give figure correction n < 0.025 mm-1I.e.Fourier low pass filter • Correct to: • 6.5 nm rms 0.001<n<0.01 mm-1 ~ 2 times Con-X goal • 1.6 nm rms 0.01<n<0.1 mm-1 ~ 10 times Con-X goal -5 Gen-X pre-adjustment -7 Con-X goal Chandra log Power (mm-1 ) -9 -11 Gen-X adjusted -13 0.01 1 0.1 Frequency (cycles mm-1 ) Gen-X axial PSD

  30. 6m diameter 0.5 20m diameter 0 0.05 0.3 0.1 0.2 Diameter (arcsec) Active X-ray Optics : Angular Resolution • Meets 0.1 arcsec HPD goal at 1 keV • Easier with shorter focal length due to larger graze angles - hence less diffraction

  31. Chandra Ring Focus Test Active X-ray Optics Alignment: Signal & Compute Challenges • 105 actuators! How to sense adjustments? • Form image ~2% forward of focus  Separate images of each shell, and azimuthal sector of parabola-hyperbola pair • c.f. Chandra ‘Ring Focus’ • Factorizes calculation into small parallel steps • Each shell segment P-H pair is independent • Separate P, H via finite focus source? • Example: 20m dia mirror, 10cm actuators • Annular images 400 mm thick: 20 resolved elements with 20 mm pixels

  32. Chandra Ring Focus Test Active Optics Alignment: Computation • Need 109 photons for 3% precision in each of 106 elements [1000 ct/element] • Sco X-1 counts 107 ct/s/100m2 • I.e. 109 counts at 10-2 Hz • Many iterations in 1 day 10-5 Hz • Low duty cycle in ~months • Keck adjusts 349 actuators at 10 Hz van Dam et al. 2004  3x105 corrections at processing current Keck rate

  33. Active X-ray Optics: A More Immediate Flight Goal Chandra: ~0.5”, 2.5mrad • Need flight demonstration: e.g. • >=5 x Chandra Area • >=2 x Chandra resolution • 0.5 m2 Aeff = 50 m2 polished area • ~105 actuators • Focal length = 9 m [same as Chandra] • Outer dia. = 1.4 m [same as Chandra] • Probe Class Mission? • ‘Decadal Survey’ • Committees formed 2007 • reports 2009 The Supernova Remnant Cassiopeia A

  34. Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Active X-ray Optics: Short Term Goals • Primary: Demonstrate 1 meter-sized Wolter mirror segment in laboratory to Chandra HEW specs • Needed soon for ‘Decadal Survey’ begins 2007, reports 2009 • Secondary: space-qualified PBM materials; compute problem; wiring; …

  35. Active X-ray Optics For The Next High Resolution X-ray Observatory Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics The Crab Nebula A Cosmic Synchrotron • PBMs address biggest technical challenge • Low optical path blockage • 0.1 arcsec achievable with PBMs • Good match to weight/power/stability requirements • In operation at synchrotrons • Raised TRL substantially • Major development needed for telescope use • Rapid development program could further all imaging X-ray astronomy missions • Interested in partnerships

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